I see that Mark Steiner, Israeli-American professor of mathematical
philosophy has sadly died.
https://dailynous.com/2020/04/06/mark-steiner-1942-2020/
Is anybody able to write a short appreciation of Mark or his work please
for the upcoming special issue of Radical Statistics?
Other articles for this special issue are still welcome. Details from me or
www.tinyurl.com/rs126cfp e.g. articles on 'Data in Society' and its
relevance for the current crisis.
JOHN BIBBY
PS: I did not know Mark personally. He seems to have been an exceptionally
genial person. His work that I know was an intensive drilling into the
issues raised by Wigner in his article on the "unreasonable effectiveness"
of mathematics. I have often felt that although many of the case studies
in this area relate to mathematical physics, they also apply to statistics
- from Quetelet's "homme moyen" and Nightingale's "hand of God" to
present-day deifications of model-building and curve-fitting.
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